Quotes About Collaboration

We live in a society where individual effort and progress is valued, and that's absolutely correct and is as it should be. But we also are interdependent creatures. We can't succeed solely on our own.

With the right people, culture, and values, you can accomplish great things.

Strategic partnership is based on a shared set of values.

Our dominant values that emphasize competition and scarcity limit continued progress.

Wynn laughed. "Well, there's a saying," he mused, "that a moose is a horse made by a committee." We chuckled together at Wynn's joke.

John was a constant talker. Yoko would punctuate his sentences with a "Yes, yes" or some little bit of emphasis.

We calculate that our urgings of the coauthors of those com- pleted volumes cost us on the average, per volume, two friendships for life and several more friendships for at least a decade.

Benjamin Jones at Northwestern University and Benjamin Olken of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

For the first eight months of the war, as incredible as it sounds, William and Elizebeth, and their team at Riverbank, did all of the codebreaking for every part of the U.S. government: for the State Department, the War Department (army), the navy, and the Department of Justice.

A great work ethic isn't about working whenever you're called upon. It's about doing what you say you're going to do, putting in a fair day's work, respecting the work, respecting the customer, respecting coworkers, not wasting time, not creating unnecessary work for other people, and not being a bottleneck. Work ethic is about being a fundamentally good person that others can count on and enjoy working with.

Top-down change without honest feedback from those affected by the change simply will not work.

Behind Closed Doors 1, a fantastic book about management from Esther Derby and Johanna Rothman.

The QMO, worked closely with the PMO throughout the Kanban transformation, but we never tried to change them. Our stance was to help them understand what was different about how projects were governed with the new Agile practices so they could decide what to change.

Que la mitad de una novela la pone el que la escribe, y la otra mitad el que la lee.

Dos-a-Dos González

Fine buildings, fine pictures and books and everything that is beautiful are certainly signs of civilization. But an even better sign is a fine man who is unselfish and works with others for the good of all. To work together is better than to work singly, and to work together for the common good is best of all.

Create a worldwide personal network of quality business players (i.e., a mastermind group, a board of advisors, or a private group of mentors—call it whatever you want to) who will help you solve any problem your business encounters—and fast, because they've already faced and overcome such problems themselves. Let

the most defining trait of great entrepreneurs in the twenty-first century will be the ability to creatively collaborate with other people

Tests do not, or at least should not collaborate; it's universally accepted that inter-test dependency is an anti-pattern.

Mientras el resto del mundo luche, nosotros discutiremos. Y la discusión nos permite conseguir lo que queremos en mayor grado que la lucha.

We're in this together until we get answers.

But the operation of writing implies that of reading as its dialectical correlative and these two connected acts necessitate two distinct agents. It is the joint effort of author and reader, which brings upon the scene that concrete and imaginary object which is the work of the mind. There is no art except for and by others.

That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.

Christmas is about community, collaboration, celebration. Done right, Christmas can be an antidote to the Me First mentality that has rebranded capitalism as neo-liberalism. The shopping mall isn't our true home, nor is it a public space, though, as libraries, parks, playgrounds, museums and sports facilities disappear, for many the fake friendliness of the mall is the only public space left, apart from the streets